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Saturday, June 28, 2014

I
will be at the Newberry Library today for Day 2 of Sixty Minutes to Better Genealogy! These focused, sixty-minute sessions are
designed to help illuminate important topics for your genealogical project and
help push you through a particular question in your research. This is my fourth year presenting for the
Newberry’s summer series.

I
will be presenting: What’s New on the Internet, Ancestry Primer, Fold3
and FamilySearch
and RootsMagic. It appears that
there will be a full house as well as a full day!

Saturday, June 14, 2014

I found this old cookbook Villa Park
Vittles (from 1948-1949) in my grandmother’s things. Her name, Merle K. Bollenbach, is written in
pencil on the inside front cover. I read
through the book, indexed it, scanned all the pages and then donated the book
and computer files to the Villa Park Historical Society.

The cookbook is the creation of the
American Home and Education Class of the Villa Park Woman's Club, Mrs. C. Scott
Parnham, Chairman, dated 1948-1949. The
title page also lists all the Officers of the Woman’s Club at the time. I recognized a number of the names as friends
of my parents and grandparents.

I was most interested in the names
and the ingredients of the recipes. One
stand out was Sugarless Dessert submitted by Mary West on page 37. Coincidentally this lady was a member of my
church, so I recognized the name. It is
true there is no refined white sugar in the recipe; however it calls for 30
marshmallows! It includes chocolate,
whole milk and whipping cream and sounds yummy, just do not be fooled by the
name! The book also has a number of
versions of Tuna Casserole and molded salads (not all with Jell-O).

Villa Park is celebrating its 100th birthday
(anniversary?) as an incorporated village this year. Maybe someone will want to try some recipes
in honor of the occasion.